Radeon HD 6570M vs GeForce GTX 260
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6570M |
| 152 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 260
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6570M | | GeForce GTX 260 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Whistler () | vs | GT200 (G200-100-A2) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 104 mm² | vs | 576 mm² |
| Transistors | 716 million | vs | 1,400 million |
| Shaders | 480 | vs | 192 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 576 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 28 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6570M | | GeForce GTX 260 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 448 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 999 MHz
1998 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 896 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6570M | | GeForce GTX 260 | |
|---|
| TDP | 30 watts | vs | 182 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Apr 2011 | vs | 16 Jun 2008 |
Radeon HD 6570M
9.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 260
16.10 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6570M
14.40 GT/s
GeForce GTX 260
36.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6570M
25.60 GB/s
GeForce GTX 260
112.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6570M
576.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 260
476.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better